Forough is the founder of Code to Inspire, a nonprofit coding school for girls in Herat, Afghanistan that helps young women improve their technical literacy.
We asked her to share her thoughts on how technology—and crypto specifically—is empowering young women in her home country.
“When I took the entrance exams for university [at Herat University in Afghanistan], I chose law, journalism, and economics.
One thing that’s great about crypto with this community is its privacy.” “In Afghanistan, women aren’t part of the conversation.
I run Code to Inspire from Brooklyn, where I have lived since I left Afghanistan because of my immigration status.
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Japan’s Minister for Internal Affairs & Communications and Minister in charge of Women’s Empowerment was pressed on the issue of her involvement with an unregistered cryptocurrency exchange, which was allegedly violating the Japanese fund settlement law.
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And according to Fereshteh Forough, the founder of CTI, the women have already begun earning the second largest cryptocurrency by total value. While Forough didn’t expand on how much ether altogether has been collected by the women, this isn’t her first foray into facilitating crypto payments to remote workers in Afghanistan. In 2014, Forough collaborated
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